Make a Jazz Noise Here

[North Star]

I have trouble with the term "jazz" ...

Too jazzy for you?

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Too jazzy for you?

Well the word is obscene - the etymology is variant of jism

[San Antone]

[Brian]

I love, love, love this album. Mingus on the title track is just shocking. Between "Money Jungle" and "Fleurette Africaine" I feel like you have the extremes of the possibilities of the piano trio.

[San Antone]

I love, love, love this album. Mingus on the title track is just shocking. Between "Money Jungle" and "Fleurette Africaine" I feel like you have the extremes of the possibilities of the piano trio.

I agree.  I've been listening into some of the records that came out in 1963 - it was a very good year, for music.

[Karl Henning]

Directly you posted that album cover, my interest was irrevocably piqued.

[Brian]

Directly you posted that album cover, my interest was irrevocably piqued.

Into the shopping cart it goes after you press play!!:

http://www.youtube.com/v/mE4kPbMwXbA

Would not hesitate to call this one of my top 10 jazz tracks.

[San Antone]

[Ken B]

Well the word is obscene - the etymology is variant of jism

I do like a little spunk in my music.

[torut]

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Bill Dixon is a musician I am very interested in (I purchased some of his albums) but his music is still difficult to me. I remember the album with Exploding Star Orchestra was very nice and powerful. I think this Bill Dixon Orchestra album is a limited edition reissue. I should purchase it soon.

[Mookalafalas]

I do like a little spunk in my music.

   
  Actually, funky comes from "faunky", meaning the smell of sex (like unwashed sheets...well aftwerwards).

Money Jungle is about my favorite jazz album, too. In fact, I posted as much a few weeks back in this very thread--unless I'm suffering from deja-vu.

  Saw a super jazz bargain today at my local shop, but can't find it on-line. It's a membran box, 17 classic piano jazz albums on 10 CDs for about $20.  It had Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Lennie Tristano, and a bunch of others. 

   Ken, I think you gave a perfect description of cool jazz earlier (the kind you don't like--"in smoky bar, cats going "yeah!""--or whatever.  Smooth jazz would have no smoke, the guys wouldn't be in a bar, and instead of being cats going "yeah" it would be Yuppies talking about esgrow accounts.   I don't know enough to define the difference, but think of the way Renaissance music sounds in a Jordi Savall album and the way it sounds in the background of a Hollywood teen flick when teenagers have gone back in time to party with Shakespeare...

[North Star]

   
  Actually, funky comes from "faunky", meaning the smell of sex (like unwashed sheets...well aftwerwards).

Not to mention rock and roll.

Ken, I think you gave a perfect description of cool jazz earlier (the kind you don't like--"in smoky bar, cats going "yeah!""--or whatever.  Smooth jazz would have no smoke, the guys wouldn't be in a bar, and instead of being cats going "yeah" it would be Yuppies talking about esgrow accounts.   I don't know enough to define the difference, but think of the way Renaissance music sounds in a Jordi Savall album and the way it sounds in the background of a Hollywood teen flick when teenagers have gone back in time to party with Shakespeare...

[Mookalafalas]

This thread actually has me digging into my jazz archives...now listening to Stan Getz in 1951.  This is swinging, fast tempo bop, but because its from California and not NY, it tends to be grouped with Cool. (And Getz does get cooler as he ages--but this is swinging. I actually had to get out the player list because I didn't believe it was really him.  Stan could Wail.
  (this is from the 100 disc "modern jazz" box from Membran--highly recommended for straight-ahead 50s jazz fans.)

[Ken B]

  (this is from the 100 disc "modern jazz" box from Membran--highly recommended for straight-ahead 50s jazz fans.)

Mostly mono?

[Mookalafalas]

Mostly mono?

  To be honest, Ken, I can't say for sure, but I don't think so. The booklet doesn't say.  Most are studio albums (unlike the very low-fi "be-bop" box, which are boot legs and radio recordings, mostly, I think).  The sounds is generally pretty good to very good. 

[San Antone]

Mostly mono?

Here's a disc that might fit your taste in jazz, Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio

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[NJ Joe]

Any John Zorn fans around here?

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[bwv 1080]

Any John Zorn fans around here?

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never really listened to the Masada project, mostly Naked City and Painkiller.  This is a killer album as well

https://www.youtube.com/v/e_biryRi8xo

[NJ Joe]

This on the way to work:

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This on the way home:

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